More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes Episode guide
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Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?
How accurately are official figures picking up the new covid wave?
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Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
How worrying is the UK’s jump in cases? Plus balancing risks and the speed of jelly-fish.
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Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?
Tim Harford finds out if we can trust international comparisons with the available data.
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Counting Terror Deaths
Is 2016 an unusually deadly year for terrorism?
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Counting Rough Sleepers
How do you count the number of people sleeping rough?
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Counting images of The Queen. (WS)
How many images of Queen Elizabeth II have ever been created? And is Facebook really...
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Counting Hunger in India
Is it true that hunger has worsened in India?
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Counting Covid’s impact on GDP
Does GDP tell us whose economies have suffered most during Covid?
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Counting climate migrants
Is it true that environmental problems will create 200 million migrants? Some and warn...
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Counting Catholics
This week Tim Harford asks how the figure of 1. 2 billion Catholics world-wide is...
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Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
Council tax comparisons, migration calculations and the carbon footprint of home-grown veg
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Council of despair
Local government budgets are being cut. More or Less looks at how the pie is sliced on...
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Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?
Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you’re meant to get wrong
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Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes
Covid-19 stats, spreading jam far and wide, cooking with AI, and James Wong on vegetables
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Coronavirus, emotions and guns.
Fact checking claims about coronavirus and whether more guns equal fewer homicides.
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Coronavirus Special
The risks of Covid-19 for different age groups and what restrictions mean for the economy
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Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom
Is the coronavirus death count misleading because of delays in reporting?
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Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid
Is the UK’s Covid 19 death count among the worst in the world? Plus are we drinking more?
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Comparing countries' coronavirus performance
Is it helpful to ask which countries are faring better in tackling the coronavirus?
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Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong
We compare Covid-19 rates around the world. When is the UK going to be past the worst?
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Communicating Risk
It’s the fourth anniversary of the earthquake which devastated the city of in Italy...
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Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
We fact check Jeremy Hunt’s pledge to halve inflation
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Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine
AstraZeneca’s clot controversy turns attention on the contraceptive pill.
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Climate Refugees
More or Less looks at child poverty, climate refugees and Sir Henry Cooper's greatest...
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Climate deaths, austerity and pet food
Challenging the idea of six billion deaths due to climate change; plus what pets eat.
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Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol
Tim Harford on climate change, Victorian diseases, maths mistakes and alcohol consumption
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Climate change and birdsong
With factories closed and flights grounded, what impact will this have on climate change?
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Climate bet; Africa Cup of Nations
A four-year bet about global warming between two scientists is settled.
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Christmas Quiz
Tim Harford poses a tough statistical challenge
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Chris Froome's Tour de France victory
The winner of this year's Tour de France, British rider Chris Froome, faced numerous...